64 Bible Verses about Fools, Characteristics Of

We foolish for Christ, and ye wise in Christ; we weak, and ye strong; ye honourable, and we dishonoured

For ye see your calling, brethren, that not many wise according to the flesh, not many powerful, not, many well born: But the foolish things of the world, has God chosen that he might shame the wise; and the weak things of the world has God chosen that he might shame things strong; And the ignoble things of the world, and the despised things, has God chosen, and things not being, that the things being he might leave unemployed:read more.
That no flesh might boast before him. And ye are of him in Christ Jesus, who became to us wisdom from God, and also justice, and consecration, and holiness: That, as it has been written, Let him boasting, boast in the Lord.

For truly the word of the cross to them perishing is foolishness; but to us saved it is the power of God.

Where the wise? where the scribe? where the seekers together of this life has not God made foolish the wisdom of this world? For since in the wisdom of God the world by wisdom knew not God, God was contented by the foolishness of proclaiming to save them believing. And since the Jews ask a sign, and the Greeks seek wisdom:read more.
And we proclaim Christ crucified, to the Jews truly a stumbling-block, and to the Greeks foolishness; And to these the called, to both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God, and wisdom of God. For the foolish thing of God is wiser than men; and the weak thing of God is stronger than men.

To the overseer upon the stringed instrument: instruction to David. The fool said in his heart, No God. They were corrupted; they made iniquity abominable: none doing good.

To the overseer; of David. The fool said in his heart, No God. They were corrupted, they made their; works abominable, none doing good.

Wherefore having known God, not as God did they honour or return thanks; but were rendered vain in their conversations, and their heart without understanding was darkened.

And Ephraim will be as an enticed dove, not a heart: they called Egypt, they went to Assur.

And in that time Hanani the seer came to Asa king of Judah, and he will say to him, In thy relying upon the king of Aram, and thou didst not rely upon Jehovah thy God, for this the power of the king of Aram escaped from thy hand. Were not the Cushites and the Lubims for an army for multitude, for chariots, and for horsemen to a great multitude? and in thy relying upon Jehovah he gave them into thy hand. For Jehovah, his eyes run to and fro in all the earth to strengthen himself with the perfected heart of them to him. Thou wert foolish for this that from now there is wars with thee.

Also the chiefs of Zoan are foolish, the wise counseling Pharaoh the counsel became brutish: how shall ye say to Pharaoh, I the son of the wise, the son of kings of old? Where are they? where thy wise? and they shall announce to thee now, and they shall make known what Jehovah shall counsel upon Egypt The chiefs of Zoan were foolish, the chiefs of Noph were deceived; and they caused Egypt to wander, the pinnacles of its tribes.

Wo to sons turning aside, says Jehovah, to make counsel and not from me; and to cover a covering, and not my spirit so as to add sin upon sin:

For my people are foolish, they knew me not; foolish sons are they and they not understanding; wise are they to do evil, and to do good they knew not

And I said, Surely, they are weak; they became foolish: for they knew not the way of Jehovah, the judgment of their God.

A brutish man shall not know, and a fool shall not understand this.

And he said to them, O ye unwise, and slow in heart to believe in all things which the prophets spake:

See therefore how ye walk accurately, not as unwise, but as wise, Making purchase of time, for the days are evil. For this be not foolish, but understanding what the will of the Lord.

And in one they will become brutish, and they will be foolish: the tree itself a correction of vanities.

Every man was brutish from knowledge: every founder was ashamed from his carved image; for his molten image a falsehood, and no spirit in them.

Every man was brutish from knowledge; every founder was ashamed from his carved image: for his founding is a falsehood, and no spirit in them.

Declaring themselves to be wise, they were fools, And they changed the glory of the incorruptible God into the likeness of an image of corruptible man, and of flying things, and of creeping things, and of quadrupeds.

For the foolish will speak folly, and his heart will do vanity to do profaneness and to speak error to Jehovah, to empty the soul of the hungry; and he will cause the drink of the thirsty to fail.

They will break in pieces thy people, O Jehovah, and they will afflict thine inheritance. The widow and the stranger they will slay, and they will kill the orphan. And they will say Jah will not see, and the God of Jacob will not understand.read more.
Understand, ye brutish among the people: and ye foolish, when will ye understand?

As laughter to the foolish one, to do mischief: and wisdom is to the man of understanding.

The partridge brooded and she brought not forth; to make riches and not in judgment, he shall leave them in the half of his days, and in his latter part he shall be foolish.

The foolish one will bring forth all his spirit; and the wise one will restrain it back.

And Samuel will say to Saul, Thou didst foolishly: thou didst not watch the commands of Jehovah thy God which he commanded thee; for now Jehovah prepared thy kingdom for Israel, even for ever.

And the heart of David will strike him after he thus reviewed the people. And David will say to Jehovah, I sinned greatly in what I did: and now, O Jehovah, now pass by the iniquity of thy servant, for I was very foolish.

And David will say to God, I sinned greatly that I did this word: and now cause to pass away now the iniquity of thy servant, for I acted very foolishly.

Being turned away from the way of their transgression, they will be humbled from their iniquities.

The wise of heart will receive commands: and the foolish of lips shall fall.

How long, ye simple, will ye love simplicity? and mockers delight to mock for them, and the foolish hate knowledge?

Then they shall call upon me, and I will not answer; they shall seek me, and shall not find me; For that they hated knowledge, and chose not the fear of Jehovah: They desired not for my counsels: and derided all my reproofs.read more.
And they shall eat from the fruit of their way, and be filled with their purposes For the turning away of the simple shall slay them, and the error of the foolish shall destroy them. And he hearing to me shall dwell in confidence, and being quiet from fear of evil.

He shall die in not being instructed, and he shall wander in the multitude of his folly.

The way of the foolish is right in his eyes: and the wise one heard to counsel.

I spread forth my hands all the day to a perverse people, going the way not good, after their purposes.

And they said, We shall despair; for after our purposes we will go, and we will do each the stubbornness of his evil heart

And the house of Israel will not hear to thee; for they are not willing to hear to me: for all the house of Israel are strong of forehead, and they are hard of heart.

The lips of the foolish one will come into contention, and his mouth will call for blows. The mouth of the foolish is destruction to him, and his lips the snare of his soul.

And obscenity, and silly discourse, or wit, which things concern not; but rather thankfulness.

He covering hatred with lips of falsehood, and he bringing forth slander, is foolish.

Having forsaken the straight way, they were led astray, having followed in the way of Balaam son of Bosor, who loved the reward of injustice;

The foolish will mock at guilt: and between the upright acceptance.

He mocking sought wisdom, and none: and knowledge being easy to him understanding.

In the ears of the foolish thou shalt not speak, for he will despise for the understanding of thy words.

The purpose of folly is sin, and he mocking, an abomination to man.

Honor to a man ceasing from strife: and every foolish one will be irritated.

Good the poor one going in his integrity above the perverse of lips, and he foolish.

Neither hold to fictions and endless genealogies, which offer questions, rather than the arrangement of God in the faith:

He has been proud, knowing nothing, but sick about questions and disputes of words, of which is envy, strife, slanders, evil conjectures,

And silly and ignorant questions refuse, knowing that they produce strifes.

And foolish questions, and genealogies, and strifes, and conflicts pertaining to the law, avoid; for they are unprofitable and vain.

The tongue of the wise will make knowledge good: and the mouth of the foolish will gush forth folly.

Go from before to the foolish man and thou knewest not the lips of knowledge.

The legs of the lame were weak, and a parable in the mouth of the foolish.

There is a way straight before man, and its latter state the ways of death.

He trusting in his heart is foolish: and he going in wisdom shall be delivered.

And wilt thou know, O empty man, that faith without works is dead?

And the Lord said to him, Now ye Pharisees cleanse the outside of the cup and trencher; and your inside is full of plunder and wickedness. O foolish, has not he having made the outside, also made the inside?

Declaring themselves to be wise, they were fools,

The wise one feared and departed from evil: and the foolish overflowing, and being confident .

The wisdom of the prudent is to understand his way: and the folly of the foolish is deceit

The lips of the foolish one will come into contention, and his mouth will call for blows.

A foolish son a grief to his father, and bitterness to her bringing him forth.

A foolish son a calamity to his father: and the strifes of a woman a dropping thrust out